Improvement in hair crimpers



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Letters Patent No. 62,294, elated February I9, 1867.

IMPRUVEMENT IN HAIR CRIMPERS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. SICCARDI, of New York, in the county and State of New York, havev invented a new and improved Hair-Crimping Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure I represents a top view of my improved crimping machine. Figure II represents a view of the under side of the-same; and b Figure III is a section through the line IV and V. This machine consist of two series of round bars or rods A and B, situated above each other, and so arranged that o'ne series of bars shall fit between andinto the recess `formed by the other series.`

I prefer to bend these bars so as to form part of a circle, increasing gradually in diameter, so as to have the same always equal distance apart from each other, as represented in the drawing. But the distances may be gradually increased or diminished, if desired. Instead of bending the bars so as to form part of a regular circle, as here described, the same may at the same time be waved as represented in Figure VI, or said bars maybe made square as represented in Figure VII.

The ends of these bars or rods A and Bare hinged on a pin or pins, n, solas to turn easily on the same, the larger bars A being for that purpose flattened out on their ends to obtain the required space for the ends of the bars B. The bars B are made considerably smaller in diameter than the bars A, as said bars B are only thelocking hars, and the size of the bars Adepends upon the size of the crimps or waves'it is desired to give to the hair.` Instead of bending the bars so as to form part of the circle, and hinging both ends on a pin' so as to turn on the diameter on the cord line of the circle, as above described, the bars may be `iliade perfectly straight or Nr waved in a straight line and hinged on one end, but it is not absolutely necessary to hinge the bars together; any other fastening answering the same purpose may be applied so as tc keep the bars in their proper places. The hair to be crimped is then bent or wound around those bars by turning the same over the first bar A, then closing the first bar B tight against the hair, and turning the hair around the bottom of this bar B, then over the next bar A, and again under the next bar B, and so on until the whole of the hair Vis wound over the bars. In this position the hair con'dned in the machine is then placed in a large vessel and boiled in a. fluid for some time, and' then dried in an oven,.when the hair can be taken out of the machine and will be found perfectly crimped so as not to be affected by dampness or Water.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l The arrangement of two series of round bars or rods A and B of diiforent diameters, in such a manner that oneseries of bars shall iit between and into the recessfornaed by the other series, said bars being hinged or fastened together at their ends, substantially in the man-ner and for the purpose as set forth and described.

JOHN B. SICCARDI,

Witnesses:

HENRY E. Romina, THOMAS BUYER. 

